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India to give $647 million to support strategic reserve oil purchases in 2025-26
Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve Ltd which manages federal oil inventories, operates 3 SPRs in southern India with a combined capacity of about 5 million tons

Centre hikes windfall tax on petroleum crude
Indian government raises windfall tax on petroleum crude to ₹6,800 per ton from ₹4,900.

Queues at fuel pumps, some running dry, amid nationwide strike by truckers
Truckers are protesting against the new Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, as per which a driver may face up to 10 years’ imprisonment in hit-and-run cases

Chemicals department may be moved under ministry of petroleum
The government may consider hiving off the department of chemicals and petrochemicals from the fertiliser ministry and bring it under the petroleum ministry.

Tarun Kapoor, former petroleum secretary, appointed advisor to PM Modi
Senior bureaucrats Hari Ranjan Rao and Atish Chandra have been appointed as additional secretaries in the PMO.
